Description of problem: Current altas spec doesn't build for ppc64. This breaks a number of downstream packages (specifically numpy and its dependencies). Support might be as simple as: cvs diff: Diffing . Index: atlas.spec =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/atlas/devel/atlas.spec,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 atlas.spec --- atlas.spec 8 Sep 2006 14:31:43 -0000 1.7 +++ atlas.spec 4 Jun 2007 18:24:35 -0000 @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ %endif -%ifarch ppc +%ifarch ppc ppc64 %define archt powerpc %define types base altivec If you'd like, I'd be happy to commit this and submit a test build.
Go ahead. By the way, wouldn't it be preferred to link numpy et al. be to lapack & blas so that atlas is optional rather than mandatory?
Indeed, it looks like numpy in CVS has dropped the atlas-devel requirement, but it just hasn't been built. I've filed a bug to ping the maintainer. I've checked in an built the changes (3.6.0-12) and it compiled fine on ppc64. Hopefully it actually works.